What happened on January 9
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196165 yrs ago
Bert Kaempfert's "Wonderland by Night" tops the Hot 100
The Hamburg bandleader's trumpet-led recording, made back in 1959, became his first big hit with his orchestra and stayed at No. 1 for three weeks.
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197056 yrs ago
Led Zeppelin is filmed at the Royal Albert Hall
The band hired director Stanley Dorfman to shoot the London show on handheld 16mm cameras. The footage sat unreleased for decades before filling the first disc of the 2003 Led Zeppelin DVD.
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197947 yrs ago
Stars sing for UNICEF at the United Nations
ABBA, the Bee Gees, Donna Summer, Rod Stewart and Earth, Wind & Fire played the General Assembly hall to launch the International Year of the Child. The Bee Gees' "Too Much Heaven" has since earned millions for UNICEF.
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198838 yrs ago
Whitney Houston hits No. 1 with "So Emotional"
The third single from her album Whitney, written by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, knocked George Michael's "Faith" off the top and held No. 1 for a week.
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1914112 yrs ago
Bebop drummer Kenny Clarke is born in Pittsburgh
At Minton's Playhouse in Harlem he moved timekeeping to the ride cymbal and dropped surprise accents, or "bombs," on the bass drum, laying the rhythmic groundwork for bebop.
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194185 yrs ago
Joan Baez is born on Staten Island
Her career took off at the first Newport Folk Festival in 1959. She went on to champion Bob Dylan's early songs and sang "We Shall Overcome" at the 1963 March on Washington.
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194482 yrs ago
Jimmy Page is born in West London
Before forming Led Zeppelin in 1968, he worked as a London studio session guitarist and then played in the Yardbirds. He also produced Zeppelin's records himself.
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195175 yrs ago
Crystal Gayle is born in Kentucky
Born Brenda Gail Webb, Loretta Lynn's youngest sister won a Grammy with "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue," a country No. 1 that also reached No. 2 on the pop chart.
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196561 yrs ago
Haddaway is born in Trinidad
Nestor Alexander Haddaway scored a worldwide dance-floor smash in 1993 with "What Is Love," which reached No. 1 in more than a dozen countries.
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197353 yrs ago
Sean Paul is born in Kingston, Jamaica
His 2003 hit "Get Busy" became the first dancehall record to top the Hot 100, and he later added No. 1s with "Temperature" and Sia's "Cheap Thrills."
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20242 yrs ago
Indian vocalist Ustad Rashid Khan dies at 55
A great-grandson of the founder of the Rampur-Sahaswan gharana, he gave his first concert at 11 and became one of Hindustani classical music's most admired singers.
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